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The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-06-18
THE HOME OF BUDDHA.

About 500 miles from its mouth on the
left bank of the Ganges, the great sacred
river of the Hindu people, to propitiate
which only few years ago mothers were
won't to offer up their babies, is the city
ofidols and the home of idolatry, Benares.
1t is to the Hindu what Mecca is to the
Mohammedan, and pilgrimage to it
sometime during his life is the necessary
journey of every true Indian pagan.
Though there are no historical records to
prove 1t, it is generally conceded that it is
one of the, if not the most ancient city in
the world, and that even when Rome was
founding Benares was centuries old.
1t Is most peculiarly native in it's
streets, its buildings and it's inhabitants,
and OF all places in India, it is the place
to see the aboriginal habits, customs and
people. 1t numbers its temples in the
thousands, but its shrines are so many
that no attempt is made to number them.
The sacred monkey runs up and down
the walls and over the affairs of the tenn.
pie of Durga Kund, and the sacred bulls
and cows wander about that of Anna
pura and feed on the garlands that the
worshipers cast before them. Just out
side the city is the spot made sacred by
Buddba's presence, and the tanks in
which he bsthed himself, his garments
and his religious vessels, said to have
been protected from the contamination
of man by fiery dragons. Benares is the
religious seat of India, and might not in
appropriately be called the capital of
heathenism.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-06-18
WHAT HE THINKS OF THEM,

Mark Twain gives the following as a
sample OF boys composition on "Girls:"
"Girls are very stuck up and dignifed
in their manner and behsveyour. They
think more of dress than anything and
like to play with dowls and rags. They
cry if they see COW in the far distance
and are afraid of guns. They stay at
home all the time and go to church every
Sunday. They are always sick. They
are always funny and making fun of boys
hands and say how dirty. They can't
play marbles. I pity them, poor things.
They make fun of boys and then turn
around and love them. don't believe
they ever killed cat or anything. They
look out every mite and say: 20, ant the
moon lovelyr Thir is one thing I have
not told and that is they always now
their lessons bettern boys"
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-06-18
A CURIOUS CHINESE CUSTOM.

~ ~ ~ nv ~ - ~ - OiNs
There is a curious custom practiced in
Northern China of using hot water every
morning to wash the face and hands.
Men, women and children must have a
basin of clean. hot water when they get
up, or before they eat their breakfast, in
which to battle face and hands at least
Even beggars have hot water or use none
at all. Seasons do net affect the custom;
in summer when one would think cold
bath would be grateful, hot water is used
all the same. No one would insult his guest
by offering cold water to wash in. The wa
or is almost scalding hot, and the towe
for wiping is first used as wash-rag.
City people use little cakes of soap which
remove dirt better than foreign soap.
Country people are often too poor to buy
it, or it is not convenient to get. For
eigners think this hot water bathing
weakens the eyes; certainly no one can
live in China without noticing the num-
Der Of cases of sore eyes which he sees.
1 tell the people to try the effects of cold
water bathing; but the prescription is
usually considered too severe, or, not be-
ing medicine, too simple to try. In
winter, the Chinese wear no gloves or
mittens, but protect themselves with long
sleeves, otherwise this hot water bathing
would be the occasion of much suffering
from chspped hands also.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-06-18
ROTTEN ROW.

Hyde Park, with the adjoining Ken
sington Gardens, is a very large Enclosure
with drives, grassy lawns, and fine trees,
and with pretty river running through
it. Near Hyde Park corner, where we
enter, are some magnificent residences.
among which is Apsley House, belonging
to the Duke of Wellington. One of the
roads in Hyde Park is called Rotten Row,
and is devoted entirely to horseback rid
ing. There in nothing decayed about
this Row, and it is said that the place
used to be called Route da Roi, the Road
of the King, and it has gradually been
corrupted into Rotten Row.
There are many proper names which
the English people pronounce very diff
erently from the way in which they are
spelled. st. John, for instance, is pro-
nounced Singe-on, Beauchamp, is Beech
am; and when they wish to mention the
name Cholmondeley, they say Chumley,
while Sevenoaks has become Shocks.
From twelve to two o'clock we may see
Rotten Row filled with ladies and gentle
men riders, trotting or galloping up and
down. But the finest sight of Hyde Park
begins about five o'clock in the afternoon
when the carriages OF the nobility and
gentry fill the long drive on the south
side of the Park. There is no place in
the world where We can see 30 many fine
horses and carriages, so much fashion
so much wealth, and so much aristocracy
in a comparatively small space, as in
Hyde Park, between five and seven
o'clock in the afternoon, during what is
called the London season."
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-06-18
Ehe Hnn1e Circle.
THE LARK ASCENDING.
BY GEORGE MEREDITH,

He rises and begins to round,
He drops the silver chain of sound
Of many links without break,
In chirrup, whistle, slur and shake,
All intervolves and spreading wide,
like water dimples down tide
Where ripple, ripple, overcurls
And eddy into eddy VIII rls;
A press of hurried notes that run
so fleet they scarce are more than one,
Yet changingly the trills repeat
And linger ringing while they feet,
sweet TO the quick O. the ear, and dear
To her beyond the hand maid ear,
Who sits beside our inner springs
Too often dry for this he brings,
which seems the very jet of earth
At sight of sun, her music's mirth
As I'D he wings the spiral stair,
A song of light, and pierces air
with fountain ardor, fountain play,
To reach the shining tops of day.
And drink in everything discerned.
An ecstacy to music turned,
Impelled by what his happy bill
Dispenses; drinking, showering still,
Unthinking save that he may give
His voice the outlet, there to live
Renewed in endless notes of glee,
So thirsty of his voice is he,
For all to hear and all to know
That he is Joy, awake aglow,
The tumllt of the heart to hear,
Through purenes filtered crystal clear,
And know the pleasures sprinkled bright
By simple singing of delight,
Shrill. ineffective unrestrained,
Rapt, ringing on the jet sustained
without break, without fall,
Sweet silvery, sheer lyrical,
Perennial, quavering up the chord,
Like myriad dews of sunny sward
That trembling into fullness shine,
And sparkle dropping argentine
Such wooing as the ear receives
From zephyr caught in choric leaves
of aspens when their chattering net
Is flushed to white with shivers wet;
And such the water spirits chime
On mountain heights in mornings prime,
To freshly sweet to seem excess,
To animate to need stress;
But wider over many heads
The starry voice ascending spreads,
Awakening, as it wakes thin,
The best in us to him akin;
And every face, to watch him raised.
Puts on the light of children praised,
So rich our human pleasure ripes
When sweetness on sincereness pipes,
Though nought be promised from the seas,
But only a soft running breeze
Sweep glittering on still content,
Serenity in ravishment.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1887-09-24
Glass Works Destroyed.

THE La BELLE Factory, AT BRIDGE
PORT, BURNED--500 MEN Our OF
WORK.
La Belle Glass Works, at Bridge
port Ohio, just opposite Wheeling,
w. Va, was totally destroyed by FIRE
Sunday evening last, entailing loss
OF $4,000. To cover this there is
an insurance of $4,000. This insur-
ance is largely placed in foreign COM
panies, though nearly all Wheeling
companies are caught to some extent.
The fire originated in the main fac
tory, and is supposed to have been
caused by natural gas. Superstition
is that in some manner one Of the
large mains supplying the place with
gas sprung aleak, and, filing the
building, at last came in contact with
the furnaces, and an explosion follow
ed. There was no fire apparatus in
town, and the Wheeling department
had to be called upon. The main
building burned fast and furiously,
and q large stock house and other
buildings connected with the works
were soon ablaze. It was all so sud-
den that it was impossible to save
but very little. Two car loads of
stock were gotten away, and several
casks rolled down the bank into the
river. OF $S5, 900 loss, $35, 900 is on.
stock. The factory had two stacks,
and five hundred people are thrown
out of employment. The destruction
of the factory is a severe blow to
Bridgeport, being its largest industry.
The concern has never been success
financially to the owners till about
two years ago, when the company
was recognized. 1t had just about
cleared itself of obligations, and this
loss, coming at this time, means the
very serions embarrassment of those
interested.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1887-09-24
HEDGEsvILLE.

The tournament and dance at FL
lis Grove on Saturday last, was
largely attended, Mr.. Rod Robbins
being out of the successful Knights.
Rev. Strayer and son, of the M.
p. Church, were in our midst on Sun
day last.
The regular meeting of the Ma
sons occurred at their Lodge on
Tuesday evening last.
The colored people have neat
and commodious place of worship,
and when completed, will compare
favorable, in appearance, with
churches found in larger towns.
Rev. LEVEL and Butt preached on
Sunday last, with Rev. Smith in the
M. Z. Church in the evening.
Bush Meeting near Geo. Myers.
in the B. G. Valley on Sunday last,
conducted by Rev. Hedges and
Smith.
Mr.. j. Y. Miller, the MOTEL squirrel
and bass destroyer, is rusticating at
his residence, longing to hear the
latest returns from the above men,
toned parties.
Mr.. Barlup, of Hagerstown, is dis
posing of some pianos and several
organs in this community.
Mr.. Geo. Robbins and family, are
temporarily residing at North Noun
tain while the old homestead is being
generally renovated.
Mrs. S. j. Chrisman, of your city,
made flying visit to the village on
Wednesday last. REPORTER.
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Another Wedding at shepherdstown.

SHEpHEREsTowN, w. Va, Sept, 10.
Mr.. Jacob S. Sheetz OF Washington
city, and Miss lola Tanner, daughter
of Samuel f. Tanner, of Kansas, and
niece of DR.. I. S. Tanner, of this
place, were married in the Episcopal
Church here this evening, Rev. l.. X.
Mason, rector, officiating. The
church was beautifully decorated for
the occasion, and crowdedby friends
of the contracting parties. The bride
was handsomely attired in full bridal
costume of soft cream material, veil
and orange blossoms. Miss Lille
Mason acted as bridesmaid, and
Mr.. j. Davis Billmyer as grooms
man. The ushers were Messrs.
Louis Sheetz, Edward Strobe, j. 0.
A glionby, Chas. Billmyer. The har-
by couple took the 10 p. m. Shenan-
doah Valley train for a trip North
and West. The presents were cost
ly and numerous.
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A Widow Shoots Desperate.

"A Bloomington, (Ind.,) special
says. "A tragedy occurred at Har-
rodsburg, near here, Sunday, in
which Ellsworth Anderson was fatal
ly wounded. Mrs. Sarah Meadows
Is respectable widow, living alone
in that place with her three little
children. About midnight she heard
some one at the door, and upon ask
ing who it was she recognized the
voice of Anderson, who is desper-
ate character. Half frightened she
ordered him away, threatening to
shoot him if he did not go. Ander-
son left for the time, but in about an
hour returned and began pounding
on the door. Mrs. Meadows got a
revolver and no sooner did she have
hold Of il than the door came open
and Anderson fell in the room. In
stantly the woman fred and Ander-
son started to run, crying for help.
He soon fell to the ground. An ex-
animation proved that the ball enter
ed about the centre of the breast,
lodging in the spinal column"
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Stabbed by a Friend.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.-Shortly
after two o'clock this afternoon An
drew J. Laird, clerk in the Adju-
tant Generals Office, in company with
a man who gave the name of Jas. A.
Long, called at the Surgeon Gener-
ais office, on Tenth street, and ask
ed for DR.. Zadok L. Daniel. The lat
ter answered the call, but had hardly
reached the door when Laird, who
awaited him with an open knife in
his hand, rushed at the doctor, and
with an oath, said: 81 am going to
kill you" Before DIR. Daniel could
fully understand what was said, Laird
plunged the knife blade into the vic
TINS right eye, severing the supra
orbital artery, causing a painful but
not dangerous wound. The two men
were arrested while in the act ofmak-
ing their escape in cab. The
wounded man was attended by Lamb,
of the same office. The only cause
that DIR. Daniel could give for the
act was his refusal to endorse the
notes of his assailant. Laird would
say nothing about the matter, but
his companion (Long) said that the
trouble is personal one. DR.. Dan
iel had violated every obligation OF
Masonry and friendship, and that is
all there is to It,
The affair caused a sensation in
the office among the clerks. Daniel
iel is from Alabama, and his assail-
ant from Georgia. Both men were
rast friends.
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week on their wheels. They made
the run from Winchester in A min
utes, and when they reached here,
they needed such appendages as are
necessary for a man who is hungry;
and their othirst" was insatiable,-
"coffee and tea"
Mr.. William Swimley and daugh-
ter, Miss VERNE, of Burnt Factory,
Va, spent Sunday with friends here.
Their numerous friends were glad to
see them. To Messrs. John Hawk
and Clifton Stump, who has gone to
Macon College, Randolph, we wish
success.
Revs. Strother and Stump are still
holding their series of meeting at
Darkesville. We learn they are
quite successful.
Messrs. VIM. Kilmer, o. B. La
fevre, e. r. Henson, w. S. Laise,
Chas. Kilmer and w. b Clendening
attended at Morgan's Grove on
Thursday, and all came back .elated
with the day spent. On Wednesday
large crowd was present and the
weather favorable. The most attrac-
tive feature of the day was base
ball match, between the Shepherds
town and Kearneysvllle mines. They
play very nicely for non-protessionals
and it is said, with more practice,
will soon be ready to challenge the
Martinsburg nine, but we would like
to say the Berkeley boys" are ready
and waiting, Messrs Frank Getzen-
daner as catcher, and Cecil Baker as
umpire, enlightened the hearts of the
Kearneysville club with their good
playing, and others were good, but
evidently ''too much base ball"
Rev. A. D. Gring and family, mis-
sionarys, from Japan, are on visit
to Mrs. Chas. ID. S. Lamon. They
speak the language fiuently and
prove quite interesting.
Bert Lamon was up over Sunday.
He is fascinated with his wheel, and
talks "bicycle" nicely. Mr.. VIM. E
Cline of Waynesboro, Pa, paid a
flying visit to his parents here this
week. Mrs. w. 7. Pitzer, who has
been visiting friends, returned home
last week. ANA.
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Nobody need mistake the purpose
and effect of anti-protection move
ments, no matter under what pre-
tense it may seek to disguise these.
They are manifestly intended, and
will Just as surely operate to encour
age the importation of foreign pro-
ducts. They work to suppress home
development and independence
They are in the interests of other
countries and against those of our
own land.
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SOUTH oPEoUoN.

VIM. Wright has purchased the
house and lot of James Voorhees,, in
Darkesville
That moonlight dance at Fairview,
was a very lively affair: commanded
by Capt. Whiskey and Lieutenant
Cider; free dance, free fight and free
shooting, but we are very glad to say
nobody was very seriously hurt.
Mrs. Nancy Rutherford and Mrs
Sallie Custer are visiting in Jefferson
county this week.
Rev. Cowan commenced pro-
tracted meeting at three runs on last
Sunday.
Miss Minnie Kisner has been very
sick for some timeiwith intermittent
fever; but under the skillful treat
ment of DR.. Davis is getting better.
Market quotation. Butter Is, eggs
IA, onions $1.00, potatoes 80 and
$1.00, chickens s cents per pound.
The school at three runs, under the
tutorship of Mrs. Matte Kyner, is
getting along ninety, with an atten
dance of over forty scholars.
VIM. M. Boltz is doing a heavy
trade at Fairview and it is only bus
mess that is increasing. LITTLE SHAVER
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The Dynamite Gun.

Lieutenant Zalinski proved this af-
ternoon that it is possible to throw
dynamite a mile from an air gun and
blow to pieces hostile ship. Secre-
tary Whitney, General Schotield and
other naval and military men saw it
done. For over year there have
been long tubes on stands at the
Southern end Of Fort Lafayette with
their noses pointed down the bay.
They look like old telescopes aband-
oned to rust in the rain. Occasion
ally they have been tried ct mark
to test their range and aim and the
certainty ofthe explosion of the pro-
jectile. Inside the fort is an air
compressor to furnish driving power
for the magnified popguns. These
appurtenances formed all there Is Of
the dynamite gum. The Government
contributed an old worn-out schoon-
err, the Silliman, to to-day's expert
ment.. It was anchored in Grave
send Bay. The tide was flowing out
and only its stem was presented to
the gun. This made a narrow tar
get, about twenty-five feet wide. The
two masts were stripped of sails and
had only the cordage that could not
safely be removed. The hull was
pretty low down in the water and, as
compared with a fleet of warships,
doomed schooner was like the bulls
eye of a target.
At 3 o'clock time was called and
two blank shots were fired to get the
range. The pressure for these trial
shots were 600 pounds to the square
inch, which, through, the sixty-foot
eight-inch tube OF the gun was suf-
ficient to send the missile over a
mile. The pressure was increased to
GOT pounds, and real shell was put
in. These shells are shaped like
huge rockets. Behind the cap are
fifty-five pounds of nitro-gelatine in
brass shell, aud attached to that
is brass tail that makes the whole
rocket FIVE or six feet long. There
was louder hiss when the first load
ed shell came and little white cloud
of escaping air. The rocket Kissed
along for ten or twelve seconds and
then pumped into the water few
Yards off the starboard quarter of
the schooner. AS soon as it struck
it there was an explosion, and col
umns Of water and spray went hun
dred feet into the air, as if a great
whale had just blown. The schooner
rocked In the water and the main
mast tumbled over, breaking the top
Of the formast, and carrying the bull
warks and cordage with it. In a
few minutes second loaded shell
came booming along high enough to
clear the topmast OF any boat that
might have been in the way. 1t
pumped right under the stern of the
schooner and exploded. The old
boat rose in the air with the mass of
water and came down total wreck.
There were cheers at the success of
the experiment and the whistles foot.
ed as they do at the end of yatch
race. Two other shots were fred to
show the accuracy of the gun. The
first of them struck the rigging of
the foremost and exploding smashed
the wreckage more completely.
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Edward Shepherd, of Harrisburg, nj

Edward Shepherd, of Harrisburg, H..
SAYS: Having received 80 much benefit
from Electric Bitters, | feel it my duty to
let suffering humanity know it. Have had q
running sore on my leg for eight years; my
doctors told me would have to have the
bone scraped or leg amputated ! used in
stead, three bottles OF Electric Bitters and
seven boxes Bucklen's Arnica Salve, and my
ep is now sound and we'll"
Electric Bitters are sold at 6fiy cents
bottle. andBucklen's ArnicA Salve at 25c.
per box by e. @. Williams, Jr., Bro.
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Lige Manning. who fell from a
second-story window at Point Pleas
ant while in somnambulistic sleep,
is lying at the point of death, with
no hopes of recovery, He struck
on the back Of his head in falling,
and blood was forced from his eyes
and ears.
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Walking advertisements for DIR.
Sage's Catarrh Remedy are the thous-
ands 1t has cured.
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bodies they have gone on and levied
the peoples money as if there would
be no end to its payment or expendi-
ture, and lastly we will have to CON-
mence a retrenchment of expenses
right at home, our private family ex-
penses have also been double since
that period of time first alluded to.
The incentive to spend money for the
fashionable has never been equaled
at any period of our history as q
country. The fashionable resorts too
have been more numerously attend
ed during the past year than ever
before, and to use the expression of
gentleman who had an opportunity
to observe at certain junction OF
railroads there was an excursion OF
fine dressed people passing every
day. All of these things require
time and money, must be paid and
fed somewhere, and with the low val
ues must wind up in ruin to our peo-
pie. Our country will be knighted,
our lands pass into the hands OF the
few that exercise economy and pru-
dence or into the hands ofstrangers,
because our young men are led INTO
these extravagances, neglect their
business, and pass their time with a
want of attention to business lead
ing life of hilarity and amusement
say nothing about dissipation, that
therefore from the standpoint we
have taken in this matter, it will be
hoove the young men of our country
to put their shoulder to the wheel
and remedy the evil, because much
of the evils of our want of prosperl-
ty commences right at home. If
they do not, the result will be that
so far as our agricultural people are
concerned our valuable lands will
pass into the hands ofstrangers and
the value of them must recede, be-
cause there will be no opposition or
competition to purchasers, since the
purchaser will buy them to suit him
self. ;.